We spend summers in Maine, returning to Arizona in October Last September I started seeing lots of posts in my Facebook feed from a guy named Graham Platner, mostly yelling about genocide in Gaza and using the usual code phrases regarding Jewish influence. Seems he was running for the Democratic nomination for Senate. I thought he was just some nut who'd get wiped out in the primary. Instead he drove the incumbent Democratic governor, a solid progressive, out of the race and won the nomination.
That's despite:
- the Jew bashing
- the Commie loving
- the Nazi tattoo wearing(1)
- the phony background story
- enlisting in the Army, not because of patriotism or a sense of duty, but because he liked killing people
- mocking the death of his fellow soldiers
- the rape fantasies (to be fair he said he'd only rape to establish dominance not as a sexual thing)
- sexually assaulting a Republican woman
No, what it took to finally drive him out of the race was sexually assaulting a Democratic woman. Tells you a lot about the state of the Democratic party in Maine. None of the other stuff mattered - and the Jew bashing was seen as a positive by D voters. You could also already tell how bad Platner was just by looking at the Senators endorsing him early on - The Bum (Sanders), The Cherokee Princess (Warren), The Dirtbag (Gallego), and The Callow Youth (Murphy).
Actually, it's a bit misleading to say it was the sexual assault on the D lady that did it. The truth is that a week ago, polls in Maine showed Susan Collins (R) edging ahead of Platner in the Senate race. Usually, Collins trails the D challenger, only pulling ahead in the final couple of weeks of the campaign, but here she was beginning to open a lead on Platner in early July, spelling his doom. Time for the D's to pull the plug in time to insert another candidate, so time to come forward with the sexual assault claim.
Platner is a bad indicator of where the Democratic party is headed in Maine but there was another story, undercovered in the media, that really tells you about the danger Maine Democrats (and those similarly situated elsewhere) pose to our democracy.
In early 2025, a Republican State Representative, Laurel Libby, posted a photo of a local high school track meet on Facebook. One of the winners in the girl's competition was a boy who claimed he was a girl. The representative stated in her post that this was wrong and boys should not be allowed to compete in girls competitions.
The Maine House of Representatives is narrowly controlled by Democrats, 75 to 72. The House voted on party lines to censure the Republican representative and, until she apologized, banned her from speaking and voting in the House. Not even one Democrat representative saw anything wrong with this action.
Rep. Libby filed a federal court action seeking an injunction against the House for stripping her constituents of representation in the legislature. In the District Court, a Biden appointed judge saw nothing wrong with the silencing of Rep. Libby and refused to grant the injunction. Libby appealed to the First Circuit but a three judge panel of Biden appointees saw nothing wrong and declined to grant the injunction.
It finally took an appeal to the United State Supreme Court to get Libby's request granted (Sotomayor and Jackson dissenting). After the Supreme Court action, the legislature
What happened to Rep Libby is as much an indicator as Platner's primary win, of how radical Maine Democrats have become. Libby was opining on a public issue, taking a position that all polling shows is the majority position of all Americans nationwide. Yet every Maine representative voted to silence her, and Democratic appointees at the District and Appellate Court levels refused to intervene.
What has become ever more evident over the last few years is that Democrats have convinced themselves they are entitled to use all measures to suppress dissent, and will use any excuse to do so. To them, democracy is when they win everything. They oppose diversity in viewpoints. Look at their hysteria over losing control of just one social media platform - twitter when Elon Musk purchased it. They have an insatiable need to control every avenue of opinion, every institution, every organ of government. What happened in the Maine state legislature in 2025 is just the front of the new wave of repression. If the Democrats attain a trifecta at the federal level and stuff the Supreme Court with radical justices, a plan they have adopted as their goal, in the future elected opposition figures like Rep. Libby will be successfully suppressed. There is no "moderate" wing of the Democratic Party left.
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(1) Best quip I saw on this was that Platner's autobiography is called Maine Kampf.
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